Linda Bove

Linda Bove is a deaf American actress who performed as Linda the Librarian on the PBS childrens series Sesame Street from 1971 to 2003.

Bove was born deaf in Garfield, New Jersey, to two deaf parents. As a child, she attended St. Joseph School for the Deaf in Bronx, New York, and then Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf in Trenton, New Jersey from which she graduated in 1963. She attended Gallaudet University for college where she studied library science. From there, she became interested in theatre. She participated in several theatrical productions at Gallaudet including The Threepenny Opera and poetic characterizations of the Spoon River Anthology. In her senior year at Gallaudet University, she studied in a Summer School Program at the National Theater for the Deaf.

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